The Angle: Fight Fight Edition

Transgender Army veteran Tanya Walker speaks to protesters in Times Square on July 26 in New York City.

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It’s fine: Liberals don’t need to tone down their social justice commitments and “be nicer” to conservatives, Osita Nwanevu writes. Polls show that most Americans believe in their goals. They just need to resist being shamed out of their beliefs.

R.I.P.: Tom Wolfe died on Tuesday. Laura Miller credits him for inspiring a little cohort of social-realist novelists—if not through his novels, through his beliefs. And Elon Green remembers a journalist who always (by hook or by crook) got the best details into his copy.